Type
Conference PaperAuthors
Hernandez Perez, FranciscoIm, Hong G.

Zhou, Zhen
Shoshin, Yuriy
van Oijen, Jeroen
de Goey, Philip
KAUST Department
Clean Combustion Research CenterComputational Reacting Flow Laboratory (CRFL)
Mechanical Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2019-01-06Online Publication Date
2019-01-06Print Publication Date
2019-01-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/630938
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In this research work, we investigate the influence of transport models and thermal diffusion (Soret effect) on numerical predictions of zero-gravity flame balls as well as normal-gravity steady and closed burner-stabilized reacting fronts for lean hydrogen-methane-air premixed mixtures, having a 40% hydrogen (H2) and 60% methane (CH4) fuel composition, specified on a molar basis. Three transport models are considered in the simulations: mixture-averaged, multicomponent, and multicomponent with inclusion of thermal diffusion. Although differences are found between the mixture-averaged and multicomponent solutions, they are not as prominent as those found when thermal diffusion is accounted for. The inclusion of thermal diffusion leads to predictions of larger flame sizes for both the zero-gravity flame balls and the normal-gravity burner-stabilized flames. Furthermore, lower lean limits are predicted when thermal diffusion is included in the computations.Citation
Hernandez Perez FE, Im HG, Zhou Z, Shoshin Y, van Oijen J, et al. (2019) Impact of thermal diffusion on lean near-limit H2-CH4-air flames. AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-2366.Sponsors
The first two authors were supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Computational resources were provided by the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL).Journal
AIAA Scitech 2019 ForumAdditional Links
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-2366ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.2514/6.2019-2366